Imipramine treatment of school phobia

The relationship between anorexia nervosa and depression: A reevaluation

“…However, the appropriateness of utilizing these agents for their "side effects" in AN has yet to be established. In addition, the usefulness of these drugs extends beyond treatment of depression to include panic disorder (Klein, Gittelman, Quitkin, & Rifkin, et al, 1980;Amsterdam, Brunswick, & Mendels, et al, 1980), enuresis (Shaffer, 1977), school phobia (Rabiner & Klein, 1969), pain (Adler, 1978;Davis, Lewis, Gerich, Kaplan, Schultz, & Wallin, 1977), and cardiac ventricular ectopy (Klein et al, 1980). Clearly, these are not all affective variants, nor should their response to "antidepressants" construe them as such.…”

A case study of ten school-avoidant students

“…The majority of Choi's (1961) subjects were 9 to 13 years old; Chazan (1962) and Rabiner and Klein (1969) reported peak referrals at 11 to 13 years old and 12 to 14 years old, respectively. Kennedy (1965) had 50 children and adolescents from 5 to 14 years old and Last et al ( 1987 ) had 111 children, aged 5 to 18 years old.…”

“…Six articles (Eisenberg, 1958;Goldberg, 1977;Hersov, 1960;Rabiner & Klein, 1969;Rodriguez et al, 1959;Waldfogel et al, 1957) had more males reported in the studies. Clyne (1966) and Kennedy (1965) had an equal number of male and female referrals.…”

“…An early paper was Watson and Rayner's (1920) classical conditioning study of the development of emotional A fourth model was the contribution of psychopharnacological researchers (Gittleman- Klein & Klein, 197 3, 1988;Rabiner & Klein, 1969) who conceptualized schoolavoidance behavior as depression or panic disorder. Their research on drug treatment indicated that an anti-depressant, Imipramine, acted to reduce the panic attacks the school-avoidant children experienced.…”